Miller, Adam (Horn)

Adam ""Horn"" Miller was born in Bavaria in October of 1839 and moved to St. Louis when he was a child. Followed gold strikes in the west, coming to Cooke City in the early 1870s - See Magazine Article Describes Beauties, Billings Gazette, June 3, 1928, and Earliest Resident Tells of Wagon Trip, Billings Gazette, July 21, 1935. Met President Chester Arthur as a Yellowstone Park guide about 1883 - See Montana Matters, Helena Daily Independent, September 14, 1883, p.7. Miller Creek and Miller Mountain were named after him. See Me By Mary Margaret Curl. Died in 1917 or a later date. His hand-made 50 caliber rifle was donated the Montana Historical Society in 1920.

Creator

Unknown

Genre (AAT)

photographs

Type

Image;StillImage

Language

eng

Date Original

1910

Date (Unknown or Estimated)

Circa 1910

Subject (TGM)

Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County--Billings. Gold miners.

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